Photos Taken in Germany | World War II Database

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German civilians exhuming remains of 140 prisoners originally from Flossenbürg Concentration Camp about 50km to the northeast, near Schwarzenfeld, Germany, 24 Apr 1945	US 3rd Army soldier guarding loot found stored in the Schlosskirche (Castle Church) at the Ellingen Castle in southern Germany, 24 Apr 1945	US Senator Alben Barkley visiting Buchenwald Concentration Camp, Weimar, Germany, 24 Apr 1945	Adolf Hitler decorating Hitler Youth members, Berlin, Germany, 25 Apr 1945

Ulm Münster standing amongst devastation, Ulm, Germany, 25 Apr 1945	US 69th Infantry Division Captain Hans Trefousse posing with a SdKfz 165 self-propelled gun that he had captured by persuading the German crew to surrender on 25 Apr 1945, near Wurzen, Sachsen, Germany	US Army African-American crew of the 761st Tank Battalion on a M5A1 Stuart light tank in Coburg, Bayreuth, Germany, 25 Apr 1945. Note white flags hanging from upper palace windows. Also note evidence that those windows have been machine gunned.	Female SS guards made to bury victims of the Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp, Germany, 28 Apr 1945

Soviet and US officers at Torgau, a city on the Elbe River, Germany, 28 Apr 1945; note left Soviet officer's TT-33, center Soviet captain's Luger in belt, right US Lieutenant Dwight Brooks's holstered Colt 1911 and in-hand Walther P38	Kaufering Concentration Camp, southern Germany, 29 Apr 1945	Liberated prisoners killing German guards at Dachau Concentration Camp, Germany, 29 Apr 1945	Prisoners celebrating the arrival of United States Army troops, Dachau Concentration Camp, Germany, 29 Apr 1945

Prisoners celebrating, Dachau Concentration Camp, Germany, 29 Apr 1945; note female prisoners in foreground	SS-Untersturmführer Heinrich Wicker (mostly hidden behind aide) speaking with US General Henning Linden, Dachau Concentration Camp, Germany, 29 Apr 1945; also present were journalist Paul Levy (with helmet, looking down), Dr. Victor Maurer (facing away)	US Army troops executing German SS guards at Dachau Concentration Camp, Germany, 29 Apr 1945	An American soldier standing beside the bodies of SS personnel shot by US troops during the liberation of Dachau Concentration Camp, Germany, 29-30 Apr 1945

T-34-85 tank and SU-100 tank destroyer of Soviet 1st Guards Tank Army outside of Berlin, Germany, 30 Apr 1945	10.5 cm leFH18 (Sf) auf Geschützwagen Lorraine Schlepper self-propelled gun, Germany, Apr-Jun 1945	A recently-liberated Buchenwald Concentration Camp survivor, Weimar, Germany, Apr-Jun 1945	A soldier of US 1st Army posing with a wrecked Jagdtiger tank destroyer, Offensen, Germany, Apr-May 1945